RISC-V: Correct and improve the "-mabi" documentation

The documentation for the "-mabi" argument on RISC-V was incorrect.  We
chose to treat this as a documentation bug rather than a code bug, and
to make the documentation match what GCC currently does.  In the
process, I also improved the documentation a bit.

Thanks to Alex Bradbury for finding the bug!

PR target/82717: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82717

gcc/ChangeLog

2017-10-27  Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@dabbelt.com>

        PR target/82717
        * doc/invoke.texi (RISC-V) <-mabi>: Correct and improve.

From-SVN: r254153

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index bf87fafca14fe6a6c099a2d816dea1036416c19a..68d5943e90bfd00ab09813c216b07df9ba821ca9 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-10-27  Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@dabbelt.com>
+
+       PR target/82717
+       * doc/invoke.texi (RISC-V) <-mabi>: Correct and improve.
+
 2017-10-27  Jan Hubicka  <hubicka@ucw.cz>
 
        * config/i386/x86-tune.def (X86_TUNE_PARTIAL_REG_DEPENDENCY,

diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 91b05402ecc347131d2e17b0c182ffe09ccc0861..0474cee0487a14994458d72f19aeb2f25c3305b6 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -21705,9 +21705,26 @@ When generating PIC code, allow the use of PLTs. Ignored for non-PIC.
 
 @item -mabi=@var{ABI-string}
 @opindex mabi
-Specify integer and floating-point calling convention.  This defaults to the
-natural calling convention: e.g.@ LP64 for RV64I, ILP32 for RV32I, LP64D for
-RV64G.
+@item -mabi=@var{ABI-string}
+@opindex mabi
+Specify integer and floating-point calling convention.  @var{ABI-string}
+contains two parts: the size of integer types and the registers used for
+floating-point types.  For example @samp{-march=rv64ifd -mabi=lp64d} means that
+@samp{long} and pointers are 64-bit (implicitly defining @samp{int} to be
+32-bit), and that floating-point values up to 64 bits wide are passed in F
+registers.  Contrast this with @samp{-march=rv64ifd -mabi=lp64f}, which still
+allows the compiler to generate code that uses the F and D extensions but only
+allows floating-point values up to 32 bits long to be passed in registers; or
+@samp{-march=rv64ifd -mabi=lp64}, in which no floating-point arguments will be
+passed in registers.
+
+The default for this argument is system dependent, users who want a specific
+calling convention should specify one explicitly.  The valid calling
+conventions are: @samp{ilp32}, @samp{ilp32f}, @samp{ilp32d}, @samp{lp64},
+@samp{lp64f}, and @samp{lp64d}.  Some calling conventions are impossible to
+implement on some ISAs: for example, @samp{-march=rv32if -mabi=ilp32d} is
+invalid because the ABI requires 64-bit values be passed in F registers, but F
+registers are only 32 bits wide.
 
 @item -mfdiv
 @itemx -mno-fdiv